Tom Wolfe Reading Order
6 series · 119 books · Born 1931
Tom Wolfe was a prominent American author and journalist known for his unique style that blends literary techniques with journalism. Active from 1961 until 2023, he published a remarkable 119 works across six series, including novels, short stories, and non-fiction, with "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" being among his most celebrated titles. His contributions to the literary world have left a lasting impact on the landscape of American literature.
Anthologies Series
Complete4 books (1998–2015)
Start with Writing New York, the first of 4 books in the Anthologies series.
Literary Conversations Series
Likely Complete97 books (1969–2023)
Start with Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges, the first of 97 books in the Literary Conversations series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 |  Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges 1969Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 |  Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 1981Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 |  Conversations with Graham Greene 1983Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 |  Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 |  Conversations with Eudora Welty 1985Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 |  Conversations with Walker Percy 1985Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 |  Conversations with William Styron 1985Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 |  Conversations with Ernest Hemingway 1986Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 |  Conversations with Lillian Hellman 1986Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 |  Conversations with Malcolm Cowley 1986Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 |  Conversations with Tennessee Williams 1986Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 |  Conversations with Arthur Miller 1987Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 |  Conversations with Flannery O'Connor 1987Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 |  Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter 1987Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 |  Conversations with Peter Taylor 1987Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 |  Truman Capote: Conversations 1987Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 |  Conversations with Edward Albee 1988Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 18 |  Conversations with Erskine Caldwell 1988Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 19 |  Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut 1988Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 20 |  Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 21 |  Conversations with James Baldwin 1989Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 22 | Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates 1989Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 23 |  Conversations with Robert Graves 1989Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 24 |  Conversations with Robertson Davies 1989Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 25 |  Conversations with Shelby Foote 1989Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 26 |  Conversations with Eugene O'Neill 1990Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 27 |  Conversations with John Gardner 1990Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 28 |  Conversations with Raymond Carver 1990Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 29 |  Conversations with Richard Wilbur 1990Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 30 |  Conversations with Tom Wolfe 1990Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 31 |  Conversations with Bernard Malamud 1991Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 32 |  Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer 1991Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 33 |  Conversations with Reynolds Price 1991Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 34 |  Conversations With Thornton Wilder 1992Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 35 |  Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher 1992Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 36 |  Conversations with Nikki Giovanni 1992Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 37 |  Conversations with Robert Coles 1992Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 38 |  Conversations with Paul Bowles 1993Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 39 |  Conversations with Richard Wright 1993Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 40 |  More Conversations with Walker Percy 1993Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 41 |  Conversations with Amiri Baraka 1994Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 42 |  Conversations with Henry Miller 1994Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 43 |  Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris 1994Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 44 |  Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 45 |  Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 46 |  Conversations With S.J. Perelman 1995Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 47 |  Conversations with Chester Himes 1995Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 48 |  Conversations with Ernest Gaines 1995Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 49 | Conversations with Ishmael Reed 1995Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 50 |  Conversations with Ralph Ellison 1995Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 51 |  Conversations with Susan Sontag 1995Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 52 |  Conversations with Derek Walcott 1996Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 53 |  Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 1996Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 54 |  Conversations with Pauline Kael 1996Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 55 |  More Conversations with Eudora Welty 1996Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 56 |  Conversations with Chinua Achebe 1997Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 57 |  Conversations with N. Scott Momaday 1997Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 58 |  Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 1997Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 59 |  Conversations with Denise Levertov 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 60 |  Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 61 |  Conversations With John Fowles 1999Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 62 |  Conversations With William Faulkner 1999Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 63 | Conversations with E. L. Doctorow 1999Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 64 |  Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 65 |  Conversations with Salman Rushdie 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 66 |  Conversations with William S. Burroughs 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 67 |  Conversations with Chaim Potok 2001Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 68 |  Conversations with Christopher Isherwood 2001Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 69 |  Conversations with Richard Ford 2001Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 70 |  Conversations with Clarence Major 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 71 |  Conversations with Erica Jong 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 72 |  Conversations with Jim Harrison 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 73 |  Conversations with Margaret Walker 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 74 |  Conversations with Mary Gordon 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 75 |  Elie Wiesel: Conversations 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 76 |  Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 77 |  Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks 2003Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 78 | Conversations with Rita Dove 2003Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 79 |  Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann 2003Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 80 |  Joseph Brodsky: Conversations 2003Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 81 |  Conversations With John le Carré 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 82 |  Conversations with Audre Lorde 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 83 |  Conversations with Gloria Naylor 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 84 |  Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 85 |  Conversations with Don DeLillo 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 86 |  Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 87 |  Conversations with Gore Vidal 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 88 |  Conversations with Isaac Asimov 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 89 |  Conversations with Jack Kerouac 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 90 |  Conversations with Robert Penn Warren 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 91 |  Conversations with Thomas McGuane 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 92 |  Conversations with Larry Brown 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 93 |  Conversations with Leon Forrest 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 94 |  Conversations with Sonia Sanchez 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 95 |  Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 96 |  Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 97 |  Conversations with Jimmy Carter 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
Non-Fiction Series
Complete12 books (1961–2016)
Start with In Our Time, the first of 12 books in the Non-Fiction series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 |  In Our Time 1961Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 |  The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby 1965Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 | The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test 1968Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 |  The Pump House Gang 1968Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 |  Radical Chic: And, Mau Mauing The Flak Catchers 1970Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 |  The New Journalism 1973Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 |  The Painted Word 1975Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 |  Mauve Gloves and Madman, Clutter and Vine 1977Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 |  The Right Stuff 1979Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | From Bauhaus to Our House 1981Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 |  The Purple Decades 1982Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 |  The Kingdom of Speech 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
Short Stories/Novellas Series
Complete1 book (2000–2000)
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ambush at Fort Bragg 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
Short Story Collections Series
Complete1 book (1989–1989)
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 |  Hooking Up 1989Buy 🇺🇸 |
Standalone Novels Series
Complete4 books (1987–2012)
Start with The Bonfire of the Vanities, the first of 4 books in the Standalone Novels series.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has Tom Wolfe written?
- Tom Wolfe has written 119 books across 6 series. Their published works span from 1961 to 2023.
- What is the first book in each Tom Wolfe series?
- Here are the first books in Tom Wolfe's series: Anthologies: Writing New York; Literary Conversations: Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges; Non-Fiction: In Our Time.
- What order should I read Tom Wolfe's books?
- We recommend reading Tom Wolfe's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.
- Are Tom Wolfe's series complete?
- Tom Wolfe has 5 completed series.